Correspondence, 1951-1956, from Lewis Mumford.

Deutsch, Karl W. (Karl Wolfgang), 1912-1992

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Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (1912-1992) was a Harvard professor of government and a pioneer in applying mathematics and the techniques of cybernetics to the study of politics. He was born in Prague and graduated from the German University there in 1934. He received a law degree in 1938 from Charles University in Prague, where he was a leader of anti-Nazi students. In 1938 he came to the United States. He worked in the Office of Strategic Services during the Second World War. In 1951, he earned his PhD...

Finnie, Janet.

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Beacon Press

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The Beacon Press, a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association, traces its beginnings to 1854 when the American Unitarian Association raised $50,000 for a Book Fund Project. The AUA "issued an urgent call for liberal works that would meet the spiritual needs of the age." Until 1950, the strength of the Press was in history, biography, and a locus in religious thought and religious freedom. Melvin Arnold became the director of the Press in the late 1940s, and he transformed it into a wi...

Arnold, Melvin.

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Melvin Arnold (1913- ): editor. After a career as a reporter, business editor of the Portland News Telegram, and member of the public relations department of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Arnold became in 1945 director of the Division of Publications of the American Unitarian Association and Editor-in-Chief of the Beacon Press. He resigned in 1956 to join the Religious Books Department of Harper & Brothers. From the description of Papers, 1945-1956 (inclusive). (Harvard University,...